Playing crude boys and Indians

With more energy than a vitamin-fortified nut bar, the comic from Sydney's outer west has the crowd in his badly behaved hand in 10 seconds flat. He is competent, fearless and unruly and he lets you know this almost immediately by means of a very cheeky grin.

Saleh is blessed with the kind of smile that you can't really stay cross at for very long. This is handy, because some of his material is decidedly off-colour.

Audiences, for example, might find Saleh's mimicry of Indian accents unfunny. The oh-my-goodness-gracious turban shtick has been done to death and is just a cheap and easy shot.

Like so many comedians, Saleh defends his right to be politically incorrect. There is some merit in this but it's disappointing to learn that political incorrectness has become a virtual synonym for hilarious.

Saleh is often amusingly coarse, sometimes just plain dreadful and occasionally irresistible.